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Kaye's Real-Life Love Joins PC

Soap Opera Digest

Published April 10, 2001

Susan Haskell
(ex-Marty, ONE LIFE TO LIVE), the live-in love of PORT CHARLES’S
Thorsten
Kaye (Ian; ex-Patrick, OLTL, both r.), will appear on PC beginning
April
18. ABC is keeping mum about what character Haskell will play or the
length
of her stay, but will say the actress is appearing “in a series of
special
episodes” and will provide “revelations about Kaye’s character.”

The most logical possibility is that Haskell would reprise her
OLTL
persona, Marty Saybrooke, a role she played from 1992-97 and for which
she won an Outstanding Supporting Actress Emmy in 1994. “I miss Marty,”
Haskell said last year. “She’s still my favorite character.” But rumors
abound that Haskell will only appear in flashbacks with Ian (Patrick’s
brother), possibly as his dead sister (huh?), a move that may surprise
OLTL fans expecting to see Haskell and Kaye romance each other again.
(He
played Marty’s love interest from 1995-97.)

PC has a habit of hiring off-screen lovebirds: Real-life
spouses Lynn
Herring (Lucy) and Wayne Northrop (ex-Rex; ex-Roman, DAYS OF OUR LIVES)
appeared together in 1997-98; Jill Murray North, wife of original cast
member Nolan North (Chris), guest-starred last August as Melanie.